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What “Bagel Guy” Chris Morgan Could Learn from Epictetus

August 12, 2019 – Barry Brownstein …… In his teachings, the Stoic philosopher Epictetus stressed that our thinking is the sole arbiter of how we experience our life. Continue reading →

12 Quotes from Leo Tolstoy on Truth, Violence, and Government

June 13, 2019 – Jon Miltimore …… Tolstoy once said that “The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn’t gold.” Continue reading →

Two Ways Our World Resembles “1984”

April 10, 2019 – Jon Miltimore …… It had been at least 25 years, and reading ‘1984’ today was a very different experience. Continue reading →

Bastiat on How the Modern State Commits the Very Evils It Was Created to Prevent

March 26, 2019 – Gary Galles …… The confusion about socialism derives in part from its traditional definition of government ownership of the means of production. Continue reading →

Data Show California Is a Living Example of the Good Intentions Fallacy

February 25, 2019 – Jon Miltimore …… “Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” Continue reading →

Intergenerational Conflict Will Get Worse

December 11, 2018 – Jeff Deist …… Cultural, economic, fiscal, and political fault lines in America today all bode ill for harmony between younger and older generations. Continue reading →

Henry Hazlitt on Liberty: 21 Choice Quotes

December 9, 2018 – Gary Galles …… At a time when real commitment to liberty is scarce, we need to remember his wisdom. Continue reading →

Nationalism is a Weird Ideology

December 3, 2018 – Robert Higgs …… Nationalism is, among other things, a gigantic aggregation error. Continue reading →

There’s No Such Thing as “Her Truth” or “His Truth” — Only the Truth

November 27, 2018 – Lawrence Reed …… The first casualty on the slippery slope to tyranny is the truth. Continue reading →

What the State Is Not

November 6, 2018 – Murray Rothbard …… The state is not “us.” Even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority. Continue reading →